September 19, 2012
September 19, 2012 —
Five University of California, San Diego graduate students pursuing research at the intersection of bioengineering, medicine and biology are among the 85 recipients of 2013 Siebel Scholars awards, announced by the Siebel Scholars Foundation on September 10, 2012.
September 19, 2012
September 19, 2012 —
The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at the University of California, San Diego has become the inaugural test site for a new approach to cooling computer servers – a technology that could improve energy efficiency and enable higher-performance computing.
September 19, 2012
September 19, 2012 —
UC San Diego’s Center for Transplantation has met or exceeded all of its necessary requirements for approval as a center of excellence under the Federal Medicare program. This approval – from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) – allows UC San Diego Health System to accept into its program potential cardiac transplant patients covered by Medicare.
September 18, 2012
September 18, 2012 —
Adah Almutairi, associate professor at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, the department of nanoengineering, and the materials science and engineering program at the UC San Diego, and colleagues have developed the first degradable polymer that is extremely sensitive to low but biologically relevant concentrations of hydrogen peroxide.
September 18, 2012
September 18, 2012 —
Fall quarter classes begin Thursday, Sept. 27 for approximately ¬¬30,000 students at the University of California, San Diego.
September 17, 2012
September 17, 2012 —
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center launched a bold plan today, aimed at personalizing cancer treatment. The “My Answer to Cancer” team of oncologists, bioinformaticians, pathologists and geneticists pledges to “sequence” or analyze the DNA of large numbers of patients with cancer in order to match each patient to the best available drug for his or her particular tumor.
September 16, 2012
September 16, 2012 —
Chemists at UC San Diego have developed a method that for the first time provides scientists the ability to attach chemical probes onto proteins and subsequently remove them in a repeatable cycle.
September 14, 2012
September 14, 2012 —
The San Diego Supercomputer Center is seeking innovative applications for the next round of user allocations on its data-intensive Gordon supercomputer, which went into operation earlier this year.
September 14, 2012
September 14, 2012 —
The Toyota Collaborative Safety Research Center is expanding its groundbreaking, partner-based automotive safety initiative with the launch of seven new research programs undertaken in partnership with 11 leading research institutions from across North America, including the University of California, San Diego.
September 14, 2012
September 14, 2012 —
“It is important to preserve the cultural, artistic and economic developments of the Vietnamese community,” says Kendrick Ton, treasurer of the Little Saigon Foundation. “Without language, you can’t communicate with your elders and the stories get lost in translation.”
